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           try-pod
             from Wimbledon, London (United Kingdom) on 2005-10-03 05:21 [#01739841]
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 Pop music is awful, its true. However, its a subject thats  been troubling me over recent years. Everyone loves Blondie,  and there's not a man alive who doesn't love the Beatles.
 
  It seems that pop music gains a vintage as it matures. Every  five or ten years, something poppy works its way back into  the record collection. Pop is fun, accessible, and necessary  for a well-roounded and diverse taste, as long as the 13  year-old girls have got over it.
 
  What's hot at the moment: 'mysterious Girl' by Peter Andre 'Mmmmbop' by Hanson 'Reach' by S Club 7.
 
  
         
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           tolstoyed
             from the ocean on 2005-10-03 05:24 [#01739842]
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". Everyone loves Blondie, and there's not a man alive who  doesn't love the Beatles."
 
  that's a bit extreme. 
  most pop is not that interesting..to me.
 
  
         
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           hanal
             from k_maty only (United Kingdom) on 2005-10-03 05:26 [#01739844]
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yeah i like blondie the beatles-not one track ever have i even slightly enjoyed
 
  
         
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           Ophecks
             from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2005-10-03 05:46 [#01739849]
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Nothing impresses me more than a taut, well-written,  timeless pop song. That's a craft only the most skilled and  charismatic can master. 
 
  Of course if we're talking pop as in ''POPular'' or ''what's  hot on the radio at any given time''', then yeah, it's  usually pretty dire. Now moreso than ever, I think, though I  don't really know what's hawt now. 
 
  
         
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           try-pod
             from Wimbledon, London (United Kingdom) on 2005-10-03 05:48 [#01739850]
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Nobody listens to decent cheese any more. Its all R 'n B.  Pop is dead. 
 
  
         
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           Anus_Presley
             on 2005-10-03 05:50 [#01739852]
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The Beatles borre me although I can't say I dislike them.
  'Pop music is awful' is a stupid thing to say.  Badly  wrritten generric pop music is awful, but then so is metal  etc... when it's just crrap in the firrst place. 
 
  But we've had this topic. 
 
  
         
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           Ophecks
             from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2005-10-03 05:51 [#01739854]
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Popular pop is dead (I suppose?), unpopular pop is alive and  kicking and totally poptastic. 
 
  
         
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           hanal
             from k_maty only (United Kingdom) on 2005-10-03 05:56 [#01739856]
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hmm,i have a 14 year old daughter,and all she listens to is  R&B,(pop)and thats kinda now crossed with GANGSTA rap.
  so all her friends at school are now gangstas-but that in  turn is crossed with chav-so if you wanna be trendy,play  mario and dress gangsta chav-hope this helps. 
 
  
         
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           qrter
             from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-10-03 08:29 [#01739996]
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have you ever looked at popcharts around the time Blondie  and the Beatles were popular?
 
  there has ALWAYS been shit in the charts.
 
  
         
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           i_x_ten
             from arsemuncher on 2005-10-03 08:34 [#01739999]
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i haven't read this thread but there are two types of  popular music.
 
  1)music written, as art, which the mainstream has embraced  and has become popular through artistic merit.
 
  2) music written as a marketing tool to sell a brand or an  image, to generate revenue. 
 
  there is a difference between the two. blah blah blah pop. i'm sick and need lemsip and soup.
 
  
         
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           DeadEight
             from vancouver (Canada) on 2005-10-03 09:57 [#01740052]
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admitting your like for S Club was a grave grave error.  Besides, every one knows that S Club Party is the truly hott  number.  
 
  
         
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           staz
             on 2005-10-03 10:56 [#01740121]
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The Beatles were unique, though. Their music was subject to  the most radical evolution I've ever heard inside of pop.  Also, they did the experimentation thing ludicrously well. 
 
  
         
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